Right to health

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that Ms. Bhuje died on New Year’s Eve after struggling against sickness and hunger since April 2009. She leaves behind seven children. Before Bhuje’s death, her husband died of Tuberculosis in January 2009. Facing lack of food and lack of a sustainable livelihood, […]

[RE: AHRC-HAC-008-2009: UPDATE (India): Approximately 83 percent of the children in eight villages of Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh are malnourished] Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding malnourished children in the villages of Java Block, Rewa District. We have found that many children are severely malnourished and the government […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a man has become critically ill and partially paralysed after time in the custody of Gampola Kuruduwatte police. He is reportedly tied to his bed and under constant guard in hospital, but was in a healthy condition before his arrest. His relatives have […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to draw your attention to the 22 children who died of malnutrition associated with relevant diseases for past two months in Sidhi district where is highly predominated by tribal communities. According to the report the AHRC received from civil groups including Dalit – Adiwasi Mahapanchaayat, Mahila […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to draw your attention to the child malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh. According to the recent report received from Birsa Munda Bhu Adhikar Manch (Birsa Munda Forum for Land Rights) Rewa, MPLSSM and Right to Food Campaign Madhya Pradesh Support Group, about 83 percent of the children belonging […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) that four-year-old Ibran suffers from Grade IV malnutrition which falls in the category of Severely Acute Malnutrition (SAM). Despite complaints by the human rights activist, the administration has failed to have him treated free of […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform that one of the 19 striking workers, held in detention on fabricated charges, has died after contracting an illness inside the jail. His health was aggravated by poor prison conditions and the lack of adequate medical attention. He is the second detainee to […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that 120 children have been exposed to asbestos since March 2009, and that various government authorities have continually and clearly side-stepped calls by parents to fully investigate or act. The demolition has been taking place since March 2009 yet the children’s families were not informed […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from human rights groups working in Yahukimo that since January 2009 till now approximately 113 villagers in Yahukimo, Papua, died of hunger associated with diseases. The harvest failure this year caused by climate change resulted in deaths which aggravated lack of food in the […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information regarding the deaths of five villagers of hunger from the Hunger Free Bihar Campaign, a human rights group working on right to food in Bihar. According to the report, three of the deceased villagers had not received benefits from the public services to […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that a child died of malnutrition associated with fever, diarrhoea and breathing difficulty on June 17, 2009. The human rights group, Samaj Seva Samiti (Spandan) based in Madhya Pradesh visiting the village on July 20 discovered that 70 percent of 72 children registered […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a human rights group based in Madhya Pradesh Spandan, Samaj Seva Samiti (Spandan) regarding three children who died of malnutrition. The deceased children lived in Dabhiya village of Khandwa district, where two children had died of malnutrition in 2008. At present, four children […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed about the worsening health of some human rights defenders currently detained in prisons in Burma on whose cases we have earlier issued appeals. Some of the prisoners have received no medical assistance despite their serious conditions. CASE DETAILS Pyi Phyoe Hlaing (AHRC-UAC-025-2009) and Ko […]

[RE: AHRC-HAU-003-2009: UPDATE (India): Two children suffer from malnutrition in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh] Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding two malnourished children from a human rights group based in Madhya Pradesh, Spandan Samaj Seva Samiti (Spandan). One was taken to the district hospital to get treatment […]

Dear friends,  On 8 September 2008, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reported on the case of Roy Varghese, a schizophrenic detainee held at Central Jail, Jaipur, Rajasthan, in urgent need of psychiatric treatment. Roy has been in custody since 1992 and despite repeated attempts by human rights defenders to improve his conditions, the government […]

[RE: AHRC-HAU-003-2009: UPDATE (India): Two children suffer from malnutrition in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from a human rights group based in Madhya Pradesh, Spandan Samaj Seva Samiti (Spandan). It appears that the District Collector of Khandwa district has announced that all the […]

[RE: AHRC-HAC-002-2009: UPDATE (India): The government ignores deaths of forty-three children due to malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) had reported that forty-three children died of malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh (MP). According to the human rights group, Spandan Samaj Seva Samiti (Spandan)’s visiting report in April, two children continue […]

[RE: AHRC-HAU-001-2008: INDIA: UPDATE (India): Boy suffering from malnutrition dies; 13 others remain at serious risk] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) had reported that a two-year-old child had died of malnutrition on May 31, 2008 and thirteen other children were facing the same fate in Dhannipur village, Varanasi district. In fact, five […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you that the villagers in Kamuhkaan village suffer from hunger and illness aggravated by flood. The local government temporarily provided food and a medical check-up for the villagers, which is not sufficient. In fact, floods come to Kamuhkaan village every year causing serious problems […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has recently received information that a handloom weaver living in the Lohta area suffers from Tuberculosis (TB). Lohta located in the Varanasi district has been dominantly occupied by handloom weavers who suffer from poverty and TB as their industry declines. The AHRC has continuously reported the weavers’ […]